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Rare Rationality

Not only has a small gang of human rights abusers been rightfully arrested (including one remarkably narcissistic Joseph Buddenberg, author of this unashamedly self-glorifying whine), but the company hosting the sponsoring website of the enabling organization, stopcalvivisection, has had the good sense to pull all its content, posting this message instead:

Statement by the Owners of pixelexdesign.com

All information concerning UC Berkeley and those involved in animal research there has been removed by the owners of this website (pixelexdesign.com) because we do not approve of the use intimidatory home demonstrations as a tactic in the animal rights movement or the posting of personal information of researchers and others associated with UC Berkeley. Furthermore, we have changed the password to the website, therefore making sure that the activists in California who previously ran and updated the page do not have access and so no one else but the owners have access to pixelexdesign.com and any other folders or sections of the website. It was a lack of judgement that caused us to host the website for the protesters in the first place and the information would have been removed sooner, however we had forgotten about the website for awhile.

While we personally believe much of the work that the researchers conduct at UC Berkeley is reprehensible, we believe any sort of campaign or discussions with UC Berkeley concerning the research should be done legally and peacefully. We also would like to take this time to apologize to those whose names and personal information was on the website, including the contractors, builders, various firms associated with UC Berkeley and even the vivisectors. We are sorry for any issues that might have been caused because of the posting of the information.

-The Owners of pixelexdesign.com

A rare display of rationality and reason, even if it was months too late to head off the intimidation and harassment of people with no more nefarious aim than advancing science.

Editor's Note: In closely related news, is nothing sacred?

Sarah Fresh and Woodsy

Get it while you can. Sarah Palin launched a political action committee today, including a website with two full pages of content. The best part has to be the logo superimposing an outline of the state of Alaska over the heartland of the country. Who knew Sarah was expert in such subtle symbolism.

In closely related news, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets (that's 8 babies, poor thing). For the time being they're named A through H, adopting the Palin's strategy of naming their offspring after random shit.

Greater things

The economy sucks, awful shit continues in Gaza, Israel and elsewhere, and Bill O'FuckmepleaseO'Really still makes boatloads of money. But there are good things too, and one is that a new president is on track - literally - to occupy the White House. It could be that our vantage point from Baltimore is off the national mark, or that the nasty liberal media has cast its evil spell again, but there seems to be genuine excitement in the air. The kind of excitement that signals a shared commitment, a shared optimism, a shared renewal. Then again, maybe it's just NFL fever. Wouldn't that just be typical?

If you think Sarah Palin is wacked…

...get a load of John Zeigler!

Much of late has been made of Palin’s poor treatment by the biased liberal media, at the hands of notoriously caustic, rabid partisans like Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, not to mention the latest representative of the radical left (who knew?), Tina Fey.

The weird and not-so-weird thing is that the claims derive most loudly from one patently bizarre psycho with a self-funded, ground-breaking documentary entitled, “How Obama Got Elected” (Google the link yourselves, you lazy bastards – you’ll get no free advertising for such trash here!). The film contains the first expansive, unscripted comments from former candidate Palin since the election, and let’s just say she ain’t exactly happy with the way she was treated.

Whether or not she has an honest axe to grind, what’s remarkable is that she elected to grind it with John Zeigler. Hear of him? Not many others have either, but despite a richly speckled employment history in talk radio, a penchant for paranoid delusion, and a delightfully witty bias against any and all who fail to recognize his genius, what really stands out is his perceived persecution as a conservative radio personality in that hotbed of liberalism, southern California talk radio. As it turns out, by Zeigler’s own accounting, much of his career failure has nothing to do with his own shortcomings (aside from his inability to compromise his moral and intellectual integrity), but is instead a result of a complex web of professional jealousy, lack of personal integrity, closeted homosexuality, and (by inference), poor personal hygiene among colleagues and co-workers at all levels.

Okay, so the guy’s a nut. But, Sarah Palin launches her comeback tour with this guy? This is supposed to convince folks she got a raw deal? The Obama-loving, liberal mainstream media consider this newsworthy? This kind of coverage will quash widely circulated speculation that she wanted to name her last kid ‘Trapezoid’, but it was too hard for the First Dude to spell?

Only 2012 will tell.

New Ann Coulter blockbuster: "SNAPPED"

...how the Amish abandoned their religion and threaten America.

Rat Bastards!

Let me get this straight. Democrats swallow hard and vote for Bush's bail-out plan by more than two to one over republicans. McCain is the one who manages the crisis as a national stage to display his leadership savvy and yet fails to muster anything other than a hasty retreat from his own caucus. And so naturally it's Nancy Pelosi and house democrats who are responsible for failure of the 'emergency economic stabilization' bill?!?

WTF? W T ever-loving F? Does anybody really buy this crap? Other than Sarah Palin, that is.

Most Important Truth...

...from the Sunday Op-Eds (9/7/2008). And the winner is, the consistently incomparable Frank Rich of the venerable New York Times. Who else has stated this simple truth:

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that... she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women.

Rich indeed.